The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-01
PROHIBITION. LECTURE.
THE REV. DIR. HAWTHORNE on
LIQUOR SELLING,
And Earnestly InVekes Every Man
to Vote for the Prohibition
Amendment In December.

At the Cumberland PRESBYTERIAN
church last night the Rev. DR.. Haw-
thorne, Ct Atlantis, Ca, delivered a
lecture on prohibition before q very
large and enthusiastic audience or
congregation. DR.. Hawthorne took a
prominent part in carrying Atlanta for
prohibition and be has the reputation
OF being an earnest and eloquent
speaker. Among other things he ga d
that he and others were charged with
being cranks on the liquor
question, traffic which i'm
poses great burdens on society and
especially upon the poor. he admit
ted that he was an incurable crank
who believed that the liquor traffic
should be- put Gown. He was no go.
cialist or communist at heart, yet
every, drop Of blood in his veins lie in
sympathy with the men who earn
their bread with the sweat OF their
bToWs. There are Thousands of chill
dren in cities who cry for bread. IN
employed workmen have marched in
Thousands in Chicsgo carrying ban
ners with notices stating, "our chill.
dren cry for bread" This WAS due
somewhat to the oppression OF labor
by capital. The restitution
which we find among the
poorer classes is caused by
liquor selling and drinking in
toxicating. beverages. The men
who are engaged in this trafficlare de.
stroying thousands Of human lives,
and they fill your streets with human
blood. And we are asked 10 believe
that the men who are doing this are
patriots; good enough to be sheriff, or
hold other county officers, be Con.
gressmen, vestrymen, stewards, dea.
cons, or to be preachers of the gospel.
The liquor traffic produced more want
and misery than all other causes COM
bined. He sympathizsd with the Irish
people and believed they should
have home rule. Ireland has been
stricken with famine, caused not
50 much by English tyranny as by
Irish bread being converted into Irish
whisky, thus destroying Irish capital
aud prosperity. The liquor dealers
are workers OF iniquity, vampires aod
cancers, and year by year they con-
tinue to destroy human lives, and vet
we are asked to say that these YAM
pires are indispensable to the body
polite. Everybody who is not
doing something for the good OF
society is virtually psuper. And
yet there are political economists
who have the efrontery to say
that we cannot get along without
the paupers OF this character.
When Gladstone was waited upon by
a delegation of brewers they said to
him, "If you suppress us you will
have deficiency In the public reve-
nue." and he answered, "Gentlemen,
give me a sober, industrious people
and l will get revenue, but no ques-
ton of revenue must interfere with
public REFORM" They pretend that
sober people cannot keep up the reve-
nue. OF a country. We assert that the
prohibitionists are puritanical and
descended from the men who came
over IN the Mayfower. He would |
not give one man from this May
flower for whole regiment OF |
walking demijohrs or peripsteIic beer
barrels. Sometimes whisky orators
quote Scriptures on the prohibition
lists, but to those champions OF the
whisky cause he would say, sect thee
behind me, Satan" Gambling in it's
worst form is angelic innocence to the
liquor traffic. DR.. Hawthorn described
Atlanta under the prohibition laws,
and asserted that the city is growing
larger and weather., and that the value
Of properly is increasing rapidly since
the liquor traffic was suppress ed.
1t had 1873 saloons, but now II has
none, and but little liquor is consumed
in the city by the working people.
The membership Of churches has in
creased rapidly and the cry is for
mora church room, and more money
has been raised for missions within
the past year than for any three years
The greatest enemy that
man has today in the South iB this
liquor traffic, and yet there are men
VINO cry out against what they
call the awful crime OF prohibit
lion. DR.. Hawthorne referred
TO the =. murder OF Roderick
whom he said had fallen O
martyr TO the cause, but his blood
cries out to heaven for vengeance, and
The lovers OF truth are rising up to
avenge him.
DR.. Hawthorne, in conclusion, ap.
oealed to his hearers to join the pro-
1ibition movement, and on the goth
If December next vote for the prohibit
ion amendment, as a duty to God
md to their fellow men.
After some remarks by other gentle
lemen the assembsge was dismissed.
ANNTfAI DpNTAT